Allowing or denying unicast client connections

You can choose to allow or deny new unicast connections to your server or publishing point. Once you allow new connections, clients can connect to publishing points on a server and receive content.

If you deny new connections, new clients are prevented from connecting to the content, but current clients are not disconnected. As connected clients stop receiving content (when the stream ends or they disconnect from the server), the number of connections gradually decreases. You may want to deny client connections to your server when conducting various activities, such as updating your plug-in configuration, modifying server property settings, or modifying your content source. If these activities are performed while clients are connected to the server, there is a chance that streaming will be interrupted for a short period of time.

Notes

• If you choose to deny new connections, a client that is connected through HTTP will be disconnected from the server if the user attempts to stop, pause, fast-forward, or rewind content.
• You can only deny or allow connections to clients that are receiving content as a unicast stream. If clients are receiving the content as a multicast stream, you must stop the broadcast publishing point in order to disconnect them from the content.

Related topics

• Controlling unicast connections to a publishing point
• To allow unicast connections to a server
• To deny unicast connections to a server
• Administering servers